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My name is Michael Taylor. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score ...more
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Book Review: The Automatic Millionaire By David Bach
Friday, July 25, 2014 3:30 AM EDT
A few weeks back I sent out a proposal to few prospective agents, expecting at least one would recognize the genius – and their own self-interested business opportunity – in my personal finance book proposal.
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They’re BAAAAACK: The CIT Takeover Of OneWest Bank
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:42 AM EDT
The casual reader of financial headlines will neither recognize nor care about this acquisition by a middle-market business lender (CIT Group) of a California retail branch banking institution (OneWest).
In this article: GS
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Don’t Buy Too Much Insurance!
Friday, July 11, 2014 6:24 PM EDT
People typically purchase insurance either because it is obligated by law (e.g. car insurance) or for peace of mind (e.g. home owner's insurance). But more insurance is not always better. The intricacies of insurance demystified...
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Batman Strikes – Some Thoughts On Short Sellers
Friday, July 11, 2014 10:31 AM EDT
In the bad old days of the 2008 Crisis, a casual reader of the financial news might have been fooled into thinking that “short-sellers,” those financial firms that bet on the price of some financial instrument (like a stock, or bond, or currency, or commodity) going down, rather than up...
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On Longevity Insurance – Do You Feel Lucky?
Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:09 PM EDT
For starters, I hate most insurance products that purport to replace investment products. But I had not heard of longevity insurance until this week, so I decided to check it out.
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The Katsuyama Revolution Continues
Monday, July 7, 2014 12:41 PM EDT
The Wall Street Journal carries an update this morning on the main protagonist of Michael Lewis’ recent book Flash Boys, Brad Katsuyama and his newly launched exchange known as the Investor’s Exchange (IEX).
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When Business Theories Go Bad
Thursday, July 3, 2014 5:21 PM EDT
I’m a fan of New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore, whose previous article on the History of Debt in the US was totally fascinating.
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Book Review: Flash Boys By Michael Lewis
Saturday, June 28, 2014 3:09 PM EDT
Michael Lewis wrote Flash Boys to alert the non-finance world about the scourge of high frequency traders front-running investors and fracturing traditional capital markets. Here’s my beginning list of further questions to explore and answer after reading Flash Boys.
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Book Review: All The Math You Need To Get Rich
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:09 AM EDT
I learned from my wife the concept of the “feedback sandwich,” by which she means if you want to give someone an important piece of critical advice, it’s often most strategic to cushion the blow with a compliment to start, and a compliment to finish, with the criticism nestled in between.
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Rapunzel And Compound Interest
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:58 PM EDT
“Can I show you how to spin ordinary straw into gold, so you can be very rich 50 years from now?"
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Cash Transfers And Inequality
Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:49 AM EDT
Markets work great, if the goal is to maximize total output; encourage innovation; reward maximum effort; reward talent; and use resources most efficiently.
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Book Review: Inside The Black Box
Sunday, June 1, 2014 4:35 PM EDT
I read Rishi Narang’s Inside the Black Box as a kind of primer on quantitative trading, in advance of reading Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys. Narang provides a simplified ‘how to understand’ or ‘how to evaluate’ quantitative trading firms.
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Square’s Small Business Lending – Innovative?
Thursday, May 29, 2014 4:17 AM EDT
The credit card processing company Square claims to use credit card receipts data to prompt it to advance money – within as quickly as 24 hours from the request – to existing small business customers, even before they ask.
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Some Terrible Financial Advice: The “Emergency Fund”
Friday, May 16, 2014 10:24 AM EDT
“The Emergency Fund,” the grown-ups tell us consists of 3 to 6 months of wages, socked away in a safe CD or savings account at the bank, untouched by regular expenses.
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The Simplest Investment Approach, Ever
Friday, May 9, 2014 6:36 PM EDT
You probably can’t outperform the market – here is how you should invest once you accept that
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An Interesting Investment Paper
Friday, May 9, 2014 11:33 AM EDT
The investment firm GMO consistently produces some of the most thoughtful investment material anywhere, and this paper from late last year delivers the goods.
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